Very impressive season from Elizabeth, especially when you have a look at who had left during the off-season.. club captain included.
Sure many would have had them just making up the numbers this year, credit to them

Elizabeth bound to be another Fitzroy/west Croydon/trinity and straight back to division 6 the next year.
Rumour has it quite a few have left to play elsewhere.

Seems their commitee has decided not to pay players nor coaches for around the 7th/8th year now in a row.
You’ve gotta feel for the players not having a commitee wanting success in higher divisions and giving the young players the opportunity of playing a better standard of footy with the help of a few recruited players. Pretty sure in this modern age even majority of the division 7 teams pay a few players let alone now a team in division 5, its a credit to them getting this far but sad to see it’ll be put to waste most likely and take them another how many years to get the next premiership. Funny how a few littler clubs around the corner including Central United and Brahma lodge can offer payments but a bigger recognised northern club can’t and haven’t done for years.
I heard years ago about money vanishing behind the scenes but thought that was all put to bed, would love to know what their sponsors cover over the years and where exactly the club profits have ended up.
Gonna be extremely hard to compete with teams like Gepps cross / kilburn just relying on the young locals and even harder to recruit chucking a new by a canteen voucher an his registration covered.

They were going to suck next year in division 5 either way.. Won the flag last year in the worst division by far, the top 3 div 7 teams would have matched them for sure and the rest of division 6 would have been like the bottom end of 7.. No bell in the ball for them next season means a very long year, bring them back to reality a bit anyway.. Making average players look like stars last year chasing around a ball that made made noises every time you were close lol

Bit rich to trash Elizabeth’s season last year and then recruit one of their players and talk up his contributions from said season isn’t it? Not very impressive if the competition was garbage.

Salisbury
BOSFC
St Pauls
Elizabeth

Again in no order will take some scalps on their day but maybe just a little inconsistent to match it with the top 6
Not sure if I misunderstood this, but I don't know how much more consistent a club can get coming off an undefeated premiership season.



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Div 6 was by far the worst division last year, the top 3 teams in Div 7 would have played finals easily and one of them would have knocked Elizabeth off!

Bit of a reality check coming for them this season when they play the top end teams in Div 5, even the middle ranged teams to be fair! Lol

Possibly 1 of Brahma or the units maybe might have snuck into the top 5 last season as it dropped off after the top 4 in d6 but none of them would have come close to knocking off Elizabeth, - or any of the other top 4 sides for that matter, sizeable gap.
To say division 6 was by far the worst division last year is an absolute piss take

Wounderworld wrote:Players leaving Brahma Lodge in numbers not surprised happens to all clubs after premierships

No it doesn’t

Jhye McConnell has left South Clare after one year......gone back to his junior club Elizabeth.

Wonder if that was to free up points for further North Adelaide recruits to come in........that's the rumor anyway.

Not sure on what other recruits they’re waiting on to come in, but they were very keen to keep McConnell.

I think another question is how do you reatin all your juniors as well when mum and dad see your seniors in div 1 or div 6 what will they choose. At this rate every junior player will be registered with Grove Glenunga TTG PNU Henley. When your better kids go to sanfl programs they also try to push them to div 1 or 2 clubs. So getting poached from everywhere. Then they become zero pointers for those clubs as well. And the cycle continues.....

All our kids who go through the sanfl system get told to go play out in the Barossa or for a higher division club. Makes player retention of our higher level juniors very tough when they’re pressured from outsiders to leave.